澳大利亚的法律改革产生了一个很重要、但却极少为人注意的发展。现在,澳大利亚法律改革委员会已经批准将成本一收益分析作为其法律改革一个重要方面。在其最近的年度报告中,该委员会以最可能明确的言词表明了其宗旨:“法律改革,及其一般的、实际意义上的立法,必须关注其内在的经济因素。我们必须谨慎地衡量法律变更的成本及收益,并且只要可能,就应该对此作出比现今更为科学的评估……在考虑法律改革的方案的过程中,委员 Australian legal reforms have produced a very important but seldom-caught development. Now, the Australian Law Reform Commission has approved a cost-benefit analysis as an important aspect of its legal reforms. In its most recent annual report, the committee stated its purpose in the most plausible terms: ”Law reform, as well as its general and practical legislation, must focus on its intrinsic economic factors and we must measure carefully The costs and benefits of legal changes, and wherever possible, should be assessed more scientifically than today ... In considering the legal reform package, members